B&B Grocery, Meat & Deli

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"Italian-American heritage runs strong in Iowa, and you can take it all in at this family-run grocery store cum delicatessen on the south side that’s been around for almost a century and has the newspaper clippings on the wall to show for it. Hundreds of people line up every day for B&B’s Killer Burgers, Grilled Killers, and Dads Killer (yikes), but the thing to order here is the pork tenderloin sandwich, which Clinton 2016 Iowa Caucus director Michael Halle considers the best in the city. Smitty’s would like a word, sir." - Gary He